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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 133 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two
Mark Zuckerberg wants status and belonging Harvard's final clubs won't give him, so he builds a website that gives the world both — and loses his best friend and co-founder to the company he built to prove he mattered.
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
He wants to matter — to be let into the final clubs, to be exceptional enough that Erica's verdict is wrong — and Facemash is the first proof-of-concept.
He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.
Sean Parker enters at the 66 dinner and becomes the relationship — equal parts mentor and corrupter — that carries the story's real theme about loyalty and ambition.
Sean predicts payback against Case Equity for pushing him out.
Eduardo's voiceover recalls Sean spinning Silicon Valley stories that all circled back to convincing Mark to move to California.
Sean corrects Eduardo's growth pitch with the 'Little Big Horn' expansion strategy credited to Mark, then argues against selling out to advertising too soon.
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EDUARDO
A billion dollars.
(beat)
And that shut everybody up.
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